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by maceo 10y ago
US spends over $8,000 per capita on healthcare, compared to about $4,000 in UK and Japan, both of which have universal health care. This isn't a problem tech can solve. It's a problem only politics can solve.
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by maceo 10y ago
The headline reads: "the costs outweigh the benefits." Except there's no mention of the greatest benefit: improved quality of life for all participants.
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by maceo 10y ago
I explained very clearly why the circumstances surrounding the expeditions pushed the Europeans to be more greedy than their Chinese counterparts. The fact is that the Europeans pillaged the New World and the Chinese didn't. I believe
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by maceo 10y ago
Don't be so sensitive that any hint of criticism as taken as a condemnation of your culture. I don't see how "opposing arguments" add anything to the conversation. I know very well that the reconquista was just finishing
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by maceo 10y ago
"the English, which didn't have all that wealth" What? The British mastered the slave trade and its Caribbean slave colonies were perhaps the most productive of the era.
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by maceo 10y ago
I neither wrote not implied that Europeans are evil -- you assumed that. The fact is that colonialism and the slave trade, despite creating massive amounts of wealth for some, were horrific for its subjects. And Western Europeans were the f
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by maceo 10y ago
This article ignores decades of scholarship about the roots of the industrial revolution and capitalism. The short answer is that the Europeans (maybe for some of the reasons given in this article), were greedier than the Chinese. It's
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by maceo 10y ago
Wage theft causes American workers to lose an estimated $50 billion dollars per year. Usually low-income workers, many of whom are not in a social class where they're friends with a smart lawyer, are the victims. This is just the SV fl
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by maceo 10y ago
This guy is an absolute douchebag. He's a disrespectful piece of shit and anyone involved with Soylent in any capacity ought to be ashamed with his antics. For those who don't know, Lincoln Heights is a working class neighborhood,
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by maceo 10y ago
There's no such thing as reverse racism. There's only racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
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by maceo 10y ago
Give it up. I left out an important part in my original post: this guy only got media attention in America. No media attention in the Arab world, because being a Google employee didn't make his sacrifice any more significant. The Europ
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by maceo 10y ago
Please, cut it out with the bullshit. This guy played a negligible role in the Arab Spring. The only reason he received the media attention he did was because he held a prominent position at an American company. Calling him the Arab Spring&
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by maceo 11y ago
This mentality was necessary for national survival given their history. From being doped up and murdered by imperialist westerners during the opium wars to being occupied and raped by imperial japan. A unite and take on the world mentality
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by maceo 11y ago
The comparison is apropos. I've lived in Hollywood most of my life and have to spend time in SF for work. The entertainment people get a bad rap for being superficial douchebags and chronic bullshitters, but it doesn't even compar
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by maceo 11y ago
Right, and many of the pirates become pirates because they were fleeing the autocracy of legitimate merchant ships. And the newfound freedom of pirates was a direct threat to the state. It's no wonder that in a span of 50 years, as mer
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by maceo 11y ago
Thanks, added to my reading list.
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by maceo 11y ago
Yea sure, those terms were used by Westerners in 1761. I bet the Africans would have seen it differently. Nevertheless, it is our duty to correct the terms they used to better reflect the reality. And this is common practice. If it weren&#x
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by maceo 11y ago
No, not at all. Freedom does not occur in isolation. Commemorating the end of WW2, German president Joachim Gauck said, "On May 8, 1945, we were liberated — by the people of the Soviet Union." The crew on the slave ship were not &
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by maceo 11y ago
This article is full of misnomers. First of all, the "slaves" were actually kidnapped Africans. They had yet to do a day of forced labor and had not yet undergone the years of conditioning it took to turn a free man into a slave.
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by maceo 11y ago
Walmart has been pouring money into RFID as a replacement for barcodes since the mid-90's. Analysts have said that by mid-2000's, every product package would have an RFID chip. Fast forward to 2015 and we aren't any closer. A
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by maceo 11y ago
It was probably edited by a crisis management firm.
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by maceo 11y ago
Buycott helps you keep track of corporate malfeasance https://buycott.com
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by maceo 11y ago
Generally the way slaves were captured was that the Europeans would approach a west African tribal chief and give him an ultimatum. Either you bring us a boatload of slaves from the interior or we'll just take you and your people. The
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by maceo 11y ago
The barbarism began 200 years prior when Africans were stolen from their homeland. Slavery in Haiti stood out as particularly brutal, even by Caribbean standards. The white landowners in Haiti were greatly outnumbered so they had to resort
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by maceo 11y ago
No, that was their final destination. Brazil had by far the largest slave population in the world. Haiti was the crown jewel of the French empire and the envy of all nations. The caribbean slave trade began to decline when Toussaint L'
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by maceo 11y ago
This has been done before (and posted to HN), and it had the same problem. Way too many false positives, especially with older sites. https://logo.clearbit.com/starfoods.com
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by maceo 11y ago
I think Circa was a pretty innovative app, so I'm trying to pull some lessons from their failure. They raised nearly $6m and never made any money. The product was pretty good, but the question is what was the business staff being paid
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by maceo 11y ago
As much as I admire many of the people working towards divestment from fossil fuel companies, I think the whole movement is defeatist. Great, you convince your university endowment fund, pension fund, etc to divest -- now what? Now those sh
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by maceo 11y ago
This is written by someone who has little knowledge of Los Angeles, especially east of Los Feliz. Her descriptions of downtown are outdated. Yes, Skid Row and the surrounding area still has the largest concentration of homeless people in th
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by maceo 11y ago
Actually, it refers to a phrase used by Walter Lippman in his seminal 1922 book, Public Opinion [1]. The genesis for the book is the lead-up to World War 1. The US population was rabidly ANTI-war at the time. In fact, Woodrow Wilson won re-

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